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The actual photo image of the Circle Jerks 1980 debut album “Group Sex”, as shot by Ed Colver in Marina del Rey, LA.

“Located at the time between the on- and off-ramps of the Marina (90) Freeway, Marina del Rey Skate Park was essentially “a bunch of swimming pools with no water in it,” remembered Circle Jerks drummer Lucky Lehrer, whose band informally shared a stage that day with The Adolescents.

“I didn’t have my drums,” Lehrer said. “Here’s a crowd and here’s our friends. So we played three or four songs. Someone got the idea: Why don’t we take a picture in one of these swimming pools?”

Lehrer, who stood with Colver looking down at the fray, recalled the challenge of “trying to herd a bunch of [drunken] punk rockers,” but the promise of being on an album cover helped.

“It was really unruly. It was nuts,” Colver remembered.”

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